2023-10-15 02:26:19
The “Safe Return” operation carried out by the Government to evacuate Argentines who are in Israel after the Hamas attack a week ago will continue this Saturday, with the air bridges between Tel Aviv and Rome, and the almost 200 nationals who They have already been rescued and will return to the country in the next few hours on an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight.
«The Hercules and the Boeing 737 arrived in Rome with 200 Argentine students. They will return to the country repatriated on an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight,” confirmed Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero in his platform X account.
«We continue with the airlifts to evacuate all the Argentines who have requested to leave and put them to safety. I especially thank the Minister of Defense of Italy, Guido Crosetto, for providing the facilities of the Aeroporto Militare Pratica di Mare Military Base for the landings in Rome,” said the Minister of Defense, Jorge Taiana.
Meanwhile, the Aerolíneas flight that has capacity for 267 passengers that will bring them back to Buenos Aires, departed from Ezeiza without passengers, only with the crew, at 2:50 in the morning and is scheduled to arrive in Rome at approximately 9:00 p.m. ( 16 in Argentina).
As planned, at midnight it would begin its return to land in Buenos Aires approximately on Sunday morning.
The operation, organized by the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Defense and the Argentine armed forces, managed to rescue 197 people, among them a contingent of 180 minors who were carrying out an educational exchange who, with the 49 transferred on Thursday who remain in Rome There are 246 compatriots evacuated.
The airlifts, which will continue this Saturday throughout the day, are carried out with two Argentine Air Force aircraft: a Hercules TC 70 and a Boeing 737.
The Hercules C130 TC 70 was the first aircraft to be assigned to the mission due to “its versatility to enter a war zone,” military sources explained to Télam.
Unlike the Hercules, which was originally a plane to transport supplies and military personnel, the Boeing 737 is a plane equipped to transport a greater number of passengers with better habitability, thinking about the air bridge between Israel and Italy.
The Foreign Ministry opened a registry in the Tel Aviv office in which 1,500 people who want to leave Israel and return to Argentina were registered, among whom there are tourists and Argentine citizens residing in Israel. “The goal is to get everyone out as quickly as possible,” Cafiero said.
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